Honestly, in my work as a therapist, Iām seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still donāt have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist ācreate your own Purposeā tempered with āwhen the planeās going down, put your own oxygen mask on firstā, butā¦ yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
Iām a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and itās getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they donāt believe in.Ā
Ā They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everythingĀ they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.Ā
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadnāt been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just thatĀ āwell I hope Iāll have a nice house and maybe some kidā but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didnāt dare to hope too much.Ā
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they donāt get is that when she saidĀ āyou stole my dreamsā, it was the truth.Ā
Young people donāt get to dream like they used to. They donāt dream anymore, they grief all that wonāt be anymore and thatās just so fucking sad.Ā
